Success Express
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Success Express | |
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Sire | |
Grandsire | Speak John |
Dam | |
Damsire | |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1985 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Tri Star Stable |
Owner | Eugene V. Klein |
Trainer | D. Wayne Lukas |
Record | 17: 4-2-4 |
Earnings | $835,359 |
Major wins | |
Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1987) | |
Last updated on September 5, 2007 |
Success Express (foaled February 25, 1985 in Kentucky – 24 April 2015) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background[]
Success Express was a bay horse bred by Tri Star Stable. During his racing career he was owned by Eugene V. Klein and trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee D. Wayne Lukas.
Racing career[]
At age two Success Express won four of his eight starts. The colt capped off his year with his only Graded Stakes win under jockey José A. Santos in the 1987 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Hollywood Park Racetrack. Success Express was winless in nine starts at age three with his best result a second in the Grade II Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Stud career[]
In 1989, Success Express was retired to stud in Australia and spent two seasons in New Zealand between 1991 and 1993. There, he has sired multiple stakes winning millionaire, , as well as whose career earnings were more than $2 million and who was a multiple stakes winner including the Group One Golden Slipper Stakes.
Pedigree[]
Sire (USA) 1969 |
Speak John (USA) 1958 |
Prince John (USA) | Princequillo (IRE) |
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(USA) | |||
(FRA) | (FRA) | ||
(FRA) | |||
(USA) 1948 |
Eight Thirty (USA) | (USA) | |
(USA) | |||
(USA) | Blue Larkspur (USA) | ||
(USA) | |||
Dam (USA) 1979 |
(USA) 1972 |
Nijinsky (CAN) | Northern Dancer (CAN) |
Flaming Page (CAN) | |||
(USA) | Tom Fool (USA) | ||
(USA) | |||
(IRE) 1964 |
(GB) | Hyperion (GB) | |
(GB) | |||
(USA) | (USA) | ||
Gallorette (USA) |
References[]
- 1985 racehorse births
- 2015 racehorse deaths
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Breeders' Cup Juvenile winners
- Thoroughbred family 17-b